Grace Spinks

Health Systems Orientation

11 November 2015

TIL-Career Exploration

                Today I learned and did research about different career options within the medical field. I looked into Physicians Assistants this is a job where the PA works with a physician and can do most of the things that they do like treating patients, preform minor medical procedures, and prescribe medication. They can meet with patients and work in a multitude of medical environments this degree doesn’t limit the PA to just one specialty or area of medicine it allows a lot of flexibility as to what and where you can work. This is one of the main things that I like about the PA, they can do almost everything the physician can without as much expensive schooling and can try out a lot of different specialties without being tied down to just one. To become a PA most people go to a 6 year school but there is also the option of getting a 4 year bachelor’s degree in biology or chemistry then transferring to a 2 year PA program. For a 2 year PA school on average tuition is about 45,000 for the two years depending on what program you enter. The average salary for a Physician’s Assistant is $97,280 per year and goes up depending on how many years of experience you have and what schooling you have had. 

Post #4: TIL, National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs)

Today I learned about the Nation Patient Safety Goals or NPSGs. The NPAGs are rules put in place to reduce the risk of preventable things from happening when dealing with patient care. These goals were enacted in 2003 they were established to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regard to patient safety. The NPAGs is overseen by the Joint Commission. The Joint Commission is made up of several different medical professionals that work in different medical professions. The goal of The Joint Commission the goal is to promote specific improvements in patient safety with the data provided by the Sentinel Event Advisory group. The Sentinel Event Advisory group reviews a pool of evidence-based, cost-effective, and practical recommendations for addressing the problems that the data the Sentinel Event Database supplies. The NPSGs apply only to those health care providers who deal directly with that type of care. These goals exist to help and try to prevent errors in medical practice and overall save lives. 

Post #3 TIL-HIPAA

Today I Learned- HIPAA

            Today in health systems orientation I learned about HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act. The three main points of HIPAA that I learned today are who oversees it, what is a breach and its penalties, and the key phrases. The government is in charge of overseeing HIPAA specifically the DHHS or the Department of Health and Human Services. They are in charge of sending the medical information or records between hospitals and different health care professionals. If a breach in HIPAA is made the DHHS will take care of it. A breach is a violation in the privacy of a patient. The maximum fine for a breach in HIPAA is $50,000 and the minimum is $100. Also they can be charged with 1 year in prison if HIPAA is violated on purpose or criminal. Health care professionals can also be blacklisted from the business for breaking HIPAA.

We also learned about key phrases used when dealing with HIPAA. Examples include Need to know which means only those working on that case can know the personal medical information. Then there is PHI protected health information and ePHI electronic personal health information. This includes paper files and files that are downloaded on to the computer or IPad. This also includes official consent which is a signature that consents for a person to hear the private medical information. HIPPA is important in the medical field because the patients need to know that they can trust their doctors and health care providers. The health care professionals need to be accountable to not go and tell patients medical information. This is why HIPAA is so important and why it was put in place so it could protect people’s privacy.

Post #2: TIL, Professionalism

Grace Spinks

            Today I learned about bubbl.us this site helps you to brainstorm ideas in a easy to see format. This site was really easy to use and displayed all of the ideas well. As a medical professional I would use this to help me focus on the main idea or to help get down my thoughts to put into a paper. A medical professional could use this to decide the course of treatment for a patient or display all of their symptoms in an orderly fashion which could help to speed up the process and the medical field is all about efficiency.

            Today I learned about embedding documents, pictures, or videos into my blog or site. This is very helpful to have everything right there displayed so that someone doesn’t have to go searching for it when they need to see my documents or pictures. Embedding is super easy once you know all the steps and it can be uses for a lot of different things like YouTube videos or graphs. As a medical professional this would help to organize meetings or send out information quickly to other staff.

            Today I learned about technical shortcuts specifically Ctrl1, Ctrl2, and Ctrl+F which is single space, double space, and find. These little tricks make using the computer a lot easier and make editing super-fast. The double and single space make it easier to format your paper without having to go searching for the button you have to click. The Ctrl+F makes it easy to find a word in any piece of research which makes it so you don’t have to read the whole paper just to find one sentence. Health care professionals are always super busy so having shortcuts to make typing and finding information is so important.

I believe honesty, cleanliness, and dependability are the most important part of Professionalism.

All About Me- September 4, 2015

My name is Grace Spinks I am a junior in high school at Papillion LA vista South High School. I love to dance and sing, I am in Varsity show choir Titanium this year. I also enjoy tumbling and doing flips, I am a competitive cheerleader at Elite Cheer my teams name is Fusion. I am in Student Council and I love planning events for my school especially homecoming! I sing and tumble well which is why I love to do cheer and show choir. I do well in history and science classes but am very bad at math, but I over all enjoy school.

            At the academy I hope to get a feel for the health care field and get some cool experiences that will help me later in my career. Since I plan on becoming something in the medical field this will really help me to narrow in on maybe what field I would like to go into. After high school and college I hope to become a physician’s assistant or maybe a neonatal nurse. I have always loved children so I hope to do a job where I get to work with them a lot. I also want to travel the world see new places try exotic foods and just be adventurous and have a fun life.